Thanks. Good information and article. It’s not just the trademark, but the supply chains that McDonald’s created to allow those restaurants to exist. If Gorov were to rename the restaurants “McVlad’s” just to piss off the West, those supply chains would dry up.
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I don’t love you, you don’t love me.
No special sauce, don’t you see
Was ist los mit dir, mein Hamburger? Aha
Geht es immer bergab? Aha
Ist es nur das, was du verstehst? Aha
Gib mir bitte eine große Pommes Frites. Aha
Da da da.
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My father took a brief flight in and got a tour/run down of the An-225, they were shipping some big parts for big planes while he was deployed to Turkey with the Air Guard.
He described it as flying in either a steam locomotive, or a poorly constructed bomb. Just loud noises and pipes everywhere. When they showed him all the equipment, he said it reminded him of stuff he’d only seen in museums. And his unit had been flying Hueys and Jolly Greens built in the 60’s till a few years earlier.
Soviet built aircraft are “interesting”. Emphasis on the scare quotes.
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When I was a kid friend’s father talked about once flying on what he called “Aeroflop” sometime in the mid-1960s. It was a terrifyingly shaky and noisy flight not made any better by the surly crew. The highlight of his story was the large hole in the floor that gave him a view of the guts of the plane.
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What, they can’t replace the Western retailers with domestic purveyors of the fine and high-quality consumer goods that Russia is famous for?
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I think they tried and it blew up in their faces. Just look up ‘russian mall’ on YouTube and you will see their malls empty out within 3 weeks of sanctions.
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Like driving in a Lada. Straight through to the road.
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Emin Agalarov is this guy, just for some context.
Hint: There is perhaps some sort of link between these two videos.
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All bridges out of Sievierodonetsk destroyed, says governor
Russian forces have cut off all last routes out of Sievierodonetsk by destroying all three bridges to the embattled eastern city, according to the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai.
In a video update, Haidai said Russia had not “completely captured” the city and “a part of the city” was under Ukrainian control.
Earlier in the day, Haidai said Russians were continuing to storm the embattled city and “having a significant advantage in artillery” pushed back Ukrainian soldiers. “The Russians are destroying quarter after quarter,” Haidai said, adding that the Russian army had been “partially successful at night” and controlled 70% of the city.
Russian forces have cut off all last routes out of Sievierodonetsk by destroying all three bridges
The destruction by Russian forces of the remaining two bridges over the Siverskyi Donets River over the last two days leaves stranded civilians with no escape west to the neighbouring city of Lysychansk, which is also being shelled but remains in Ukrainian hands.
“Evacuation and transport of human cargo is now impossible,” Haidai said.
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Pope Francis says Ukraine war was ‘perhaps somehow provoked’
Riiiight. Like all those priests and nuns who were ‘provoked’ by minors in their care.
IDGAF what provocation may have been inferred, what Russia is doing is a response totally out of scale with any ‘provocation’. Reducing a country to rubble because it wanted to align with another body rather than the one whose clutches it has only recently escaped, goes way beyond any response to ‘provocation’.
It absolutely IS a conflict between good and evil. If he cannot see that, or if he thinks ‘good and evil’ are somehow protected concepts that only he and his church can pontificate on…well, Pope Francis? Christ, what an asshole.
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Just about the only victim the RCC hasn’t attempted to lay some blame on over two millennia is Jesus himself. Francis might want to re-consider the wisdom of emulating his predecessor Pius XII when it comes to expansionist dictators.
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Easy solve. Put them on a street crossing the border. NATO personnel push them halfway across the border and then Ukrainian soldiers can pull them all the way in. Nobody ever leaves their territory…
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Well what did they think was going to happen when religious fanatics and thugs scared away all of those nerds and creative problem solving types from staying in Russia?
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Re the UK journalists banned by Russia, especially re the BBC list, I note that Steve Rosenberg from the BBC was not on the list. Some of his reports from Moscow certainly made me wonder how much longer he’d be there.
Richard Sharp, chair of the BBC board of governors; Timothy Davie, director general of the BBC; Clive Myrie, BBC correspondent and news presenter; Orla Guerin, BBC correspondent; Nick Robinson, BBC presenter; Paul Adams, BBC correspondent; Nick Beake, BBC correspondent;
Not at all surprised Clive and Orla and Nick are on it, given how visible they’ve been in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, but mostly that was a while ago. So this looks more like just plain ‘revenge’ banning, not necessarily banning anyone on air this week and worrying Moscow right now. As evidenced by banning senior BBC managers who probably never intended to go to Russia anyway. And Steve Rosenberg not being on the list is a bit odd, if you ask me.
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Expelling a journalist who is in Russia now would get much more attention.
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Very plausible that Putin would do this sort of Bond villain deed. He very much is a “look what you made me do” type, smirking cloyingly all the while. His lackey Lavrov has no qualms about lying outright, so I expect this to come from his lips soon enough that the Ukrainians are the ones to blame, not the peace-loving Russians who only wanted to help.
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In the Russian view of things all the problems caused by the war can be solved by Ukraine surrendering.
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